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Thanks a lot for working on this. It's not clear from your post if the first optimization only applies to variables being tested by and/or operators, would it apply as well to e.g. (x() && y()) (although obviously there would...

Back when Curtis Poe was at Booking.com we were in the the first team to use Moose (actually Mouse at the time) for anything serious. While it saved us a lot of time overall that we'd otherwise have spend on writing boilerplate code we found the Moose support for type constraints to be fairly…

Normally .96 is parsed exactly the same as 0.96. But you're right that the reason it's like this is because the "use" statement accepts a more restrictive "version number", not any number that would otherwise in Perl map to a...

I haven't looked at the parser yet, but what's almost certainly going on here is that the parser/tokenizer for the use statement has a mini ad-hoc parser to figure out whether the first parameter is a version number, and that...

To decipher some of the alchemy, the reason *why* this works is that git push takes the arguments: git push [options] <repository> <refspec> E.g. you can do: git checkout some-branch git push origin some-other-branch:yet-another-name To push your local some-other-branch to...

The problem I'm describing has to do with people (including myself) who simply can't be bothered to supply at least "you need at least version X". Because doing so involves a lot more work than just coding up something that...

An interesting topic came up on #distzilla. Most modules depend on other modules, but some don't depend on an explicit version. So if you use the module with an ancient version of one of its dependencies it'll break, because the author never tested that…

You're right, when you add URI decoding into the mix Web::Scraper is much easier, actually it's easier even if you don't do that. I'll probably just use Web::Scraper instead of regexes now, even if I know the regexes work and...

What module is it and where's the failure report? Maybe people that don't have IRIX can help you out by going over your code and spotting something unportable that you've which might be tripping up IRIX and other systems....

Yes, that documentation should be on the CPAN, not just on the website. This has been pointed out a lot, and I think rjbs has some plan to move it there. In general the docs are confusing, at least they...

You can't build and test without @Basic because Dist::Zilla is highly pluggable and does pretty much *nothing* by default. The basic plugin does things like gathering files in your directory, including MakeMaker etc. These things are required for having any...

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